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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 32401" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Holmes </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Denis Cecil Bernard</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>V Force (Commanding Officer) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lieutenant Colonel </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Distinguished Service Order </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Burma 1943-44 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 26.9.1913 Moulmein,Burma</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>RMC Sandhurst</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1st Punjab Regiment,Indian Army 1933 (2Lt)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>seconded Assam Rifles 1939/40</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>2 Bn 1st Punjab Regiment 1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>V Force 1943-44</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>3 Bn 1st Punjab Regiment 1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>retired from Army 1947</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>London University postwar (degree in French and Arabic)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Kuwait Oil Company (retired 1967)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>schoolmaster,Hawthorns School,Bletchingley,Surrey (retired 1992)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married June Patricia (nee Plunkett) 1945 (predeceased him) (2 sons)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 18.1.1999</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/d-holmes-jpg.35530/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/35/35530-87bc9a8a1c94fbb7ec4682a90dcf53f5.jpg?1621800724" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/d-holmes.4516/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/custom_thumbnail/4/4516-17df222518dd6d5052cd3c95305ad280.jpg?1659548668" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/d-holmes.35531/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/35/35531-a3774c0957187a9f6105abc7a55592c4.jpg?1621800726" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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